Using empowering language builds an inclusive and welcoming space. It supports healing previous traumas and addresses the systematic oppression that violent language perpetuates. Other than the ...

Using person-centered language, for instance, doesn’t really help when you’re stereotyping someone or describing your antidepressants as crazy pills. A focus on changes to language also raises the ...

When I advised the staff that among other changes in the 2017 Associated Press Stylebook was a preference to avoid words like “alcoholic” and “addict,” and use constructions such as “people with ...

Language matters, especially when it comes time to mental health and addiction. Fortunately, how we view mental health and addiction has improved dramatically over the past few decades, and even in ...

Person-centered therapy, also known as Rogerian therapy or client-based therapy, employs a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in sessions such that, in the process, ...

Pediatric primary care providers need more training and support in respectfully addressing weight issues with families while avoiding inadvertently stigmatizing terms, suggest findings from a ...

'Person-centered care' means that people's values and preferences are obtained and, once expressed, guide all aspects of health care and support realistic health and life goals, according to an ...

I don’t remember when I first learned about mental health. Most mornings as a kid, my dad and I brushed our teeth together in the bathroom. And most mornings, I watched my dad take two pills from a ...